A Synopsis of the British Mosses: Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.Hobkirk, Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick)
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A Synopsis of the British Mosses: Containing Descriptions of All the Genera and Species, (With Localities of the Rarer Ones) Found in Great Britain and Ireland, Based Upon Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," Schimper's "Synopsis," Etc.
Hobkirk, Charles C. P. (Charles Codrington Pressick)
Mosses -- Great Britain
[DICRANELLA. Plant smaller than in _Dicranum_, and less
robust, areolation rectangular at the base, in other respects
similar.]
LEUCOBRYUM (17). Caps., lid and peristome as in _Dicranum_.
Leaves spongy, composed of a double layer of loose cellular
tissue, white or pale glaucous green, sub-secund, nerve
indistinct. 49.
FISSIDENS (71). Caps. cernuous or erect, more or less
truncate, teeth long and tapering from a lanceolate base,
cleft half way into unequal segments, geniculate, barred;
fruit in some species _cladocarpous_, leaves vertically
distichous. 135.
CERATODON (18). Caps. sub-cylindrical unequal, with a short
ventricose or strumose neck; teeth deeply cleft, or of two
equal subulate portions connected below by prominent
trabeculæ, of two differently coloured laminæ, the outer red,
the inner and broader yellow. 49.
‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ Capsule on an arcuate seta.
CAMPYLOPUS (20). Caps. oval or oblong, regular or gibbous on
upper side, tapering at base, striated, lid conico-subulate or
rostrate, teeth deeply bifid; calyptra large, fringed at base;
leaves with a broad nerve. 50.
DICRANODONTIUM (19). Caps. elliptical smooth, teeth
linear-lanceolate, cleft nearly to base into unequal portions,
obliquely striate; calyptra not fringed at base. 49.
* * * * Teeth 32, in pairs, narrow or filiform.
DIDYMODON (25). Caps. erect, sub-cylindrical, teeth 32 (16
Wilson) linear-lanceolate, _not obviously united by a basilar
membrane_, tender and fugacious, entire or perforate. 58.
TRICHOSTOMUM (26). Caps. erect, sub-cylindrical or oval,
smooth, teeth 32 in unequal pairs (often so united as to
appear 16 simple or perforate teeth), connected by a narrow
basilar membrane, persistent. 60.
DISTICHIUM (24). Caps. as in last; teeth 32 (16 Wilson) not
confluent at base, linear-lanceolate, entire, perforate or
cleft, with a medial line; leaves _distichous_, setaceous from
a sheathing base. 58.
TORTULA (27). Caps. mostly erect ovate-oblong, smooth, teeth
32 very long filiform _twisted_, articulate papillose, outer
cellules yellow, inner red, often united into a membrane at
base; leaves not distichous. 63.
CINCLIDOTUS (28). Caps. immersed ovate or oval, smooth, teeth
32 perfect or rudimentary, adhering at top to columella,
contorted, anastomosing at base. 74.
* * * * * Teeth 32 or 64 equidistant, short, obtuse, connected at apex
by a tympanum, formed of dilated apex of columella; nerve of leaf
covered with vertical lamellæ.
† Caps. not angular.
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